Welcome to our tenth monthly Cinema Sight Film Club. We start on the first day of each month with one selection based on the order people signed up to be part of the club. Cinema Sight’s own Peter J. Patrick has selected Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring. The film is available on both Netflix standard and…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: Feed the Queue (2)
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Below is the official press release from the Academy announcing 176 individuals who have now been invited to the Academy. Unlike past years, the number of questionable selections is minimized, though I wonder why the heavy admission of actors who are primarily working in television (Simon Baker, Margo Martinda and S. Epatha Merkerson do work…
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On Sundays, we list the weekend’s upcoming films along with previews of trailers and posters. On Wednesdays, we preview all of the upcoming new wide and limited releases hitting the theaters the coming weekend. On Fridays, we’ll now tell you what you should see. We pose two questions each week to our contributors and their…
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Time for another week of the Friday Face-Off. It’s a simple affair in which you are given a choice between two Oscar winners in specific categories. You choose which of the two is best. When the game concludes, we’ll have the ultimate winner in each category. For example: If you were to choose between Oscar…
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Every week, we’ll take a look back 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years into the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office that weekend historically. All data is taken from Box Office Mojo. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees…
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Nothing major occurred (yes, they are still sticking to their convoluted Best Picture rules) with yesterday’s announcement of the rules changes for the 85th Academy Awards. The biggest news is that hairstylists will finally be given credit in the Makeup category, which will be renamed Best Makeup and Hairstyling. This is what the British Academy…
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Return Links Best Visual Effects Poll Archive Best Visual Effects Poll: 1968 – 1972 Cinema Sight Asks: Which Best Visual Effects winner is best? Public OpinionPoll Results
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Bradley Cooper in dreads? Whose bright idea was that? Hit & Run Plot Summary: A bank robbing wheelman in witness protection is located by the men he turned states evidence on and must escape their clutches or end up dead. Release Date: August 24, 2012 Poster Trailer Rating: D+ Commentary: This isn’t Kerouac, though this…
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Here are the results of last week’s poll. Hud (1963) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Becket (1964) The Defiant Ones (1958) Divorce-Italian Style (1962) The Pawnbroker (1965) Alfie (1966) Lilies of the Field (1963) Hud wins and goes into my queue.
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Born May 29, 1904 in Charleston, Illinois, the only child of Frank and Jennie Toland, Gregg Toland would grow up to become the first cinematographer whose name was well known by the public. Both John Ford (with The Long Voyage Home) and Orson Welles (with Citizen Kane) would insist that he be given credit on…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Our Site Milestones 2010: The Morning After (2)
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Return Links What Are You Watching? Poll Archive What Are You Watching? (Jun. 29-Jul. 2, 2012) Cinema Sight Asks: What are you watching? (Jun. 29-Jul. 2, 2012) Public OpinionPoll Results
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